Hell I say to you, another news from the same subject,its everywhere, google is your friend never ignore him:
"Study: BitTorrent music piracy increases album sales
Leaked album piracy raised sales by 60 on average
A recent study has found that raised BitTorrent piracy may be related to higher album sales. North Carolina State University assistant professor Robert Hammond monitored prerelease albums being downloaded through BitTorrent and compared the numbers with actual album sales. The investigation is said to have uncovered a direct correlation between the two, albeit minor.
The paper, titled "Profit Leak? Pre-Release File Sharing and the Music Industry", explains how Hammond gathered download statistics from a large private BitTorrent tracker dedicated to music between May 2010 and January 2011, and comparing instances of leaked album downloads against eventual sales. After monitoring 1,095 albums, Hammond noted “The findings suggest that file sharing of an album benefits its sales. I don't find any evidence of a negative effect in any specification using any instrument.”
Although the effect is positive to album sales, the increase was found to be 59.6 additional purchases on average. The study did not consider BitTorrent downloads after release, nor does it take into account singles sales more associated with “casual piracy."
Historically, entities such as the RIAA have railed against illegal music downloads, believing them to be damaging music sales. Likewise, the MPAA has done the same for movie downloads, however a similar report in February suggested that movie rips were not affecting box office revenues."
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"French anti-P2P law cuts back pirating, but music sales still decline
The French authority Hadopi released a report on the effects of its law …
France's three-strikes anti-piracy law is one of the strictest in the world. It employs private companies to scan file-sharing networks for copyright infringement and sends warnings to pirates if they're caught red-handed. The law, enforced by a French authority called Hadopi, was instated 17 months ago to the applause of music copyright holders and their representatives. Although an early study originally showed piracy had actually increased after the anti-P2P law passed, Hadopi released a report this March saying French ISP users had significantly decreased their illegal file sharing. Despite that announcement, the French music industry still saw a decline in revenue.
Hadopi used the reports of two different companies to ascertain the decrease in pirated traffic. One metric said illegal data sharing on peer-to-peer networks decreased by 43 percent; another survey used a different methodology and saw a 66 percent decrease in illegal P2P traffic. While Hadopi only monitors peer-to-peer networks, its recent study noted there's "no indication that there has been a massive transfer in forms of use to streaming technologies or direct downloads."
For all the fanfare in Hadopi's 14-page report celebrating the crackdown on music and video piracy, the music and video industries in France did not see increased profit in 2011 compared to the year before. The overall recorded music industry saw a 3.9 percent loss, and France's video market dropped 2.7 percent overall.
The depressed sales likely won't take copyright holders off the warpath. In fact, both music and video industries saw significant increases in purchases of digital media. In music, download revenues increased by 18.4 percent. Streaming and subscriptions revenue grew by 73 percent, largely due to the rising popularity of Spotify and Deezer. According to a domestic video publisher's group, video-on-demand sales increased 50 percent.
An article on the French website Numerama also noted that streaming music played a large part in increasing sales of digital music downloads, and surprisingly, concert tickets. Streaming music did not, however, influence a user's impetus to buy CDs.
These numbers show that despite the hemming and hawing about piracy eating up entertainment industry revenue, the transition from physical discs to digital files is a huge factor in negative growth. No matter what, music industry officials are unlikely to let up on piracy. More than likely, they will adopt the argument that media sales would be even lower without ISP monitoring."
WAKE UP!!! are you in 21 Century? want data? then first get the data from those labels who said that piracy was responsible for the declined of their sales....then came back and I give you data which proves the opposite.
The music industry keeps claiming that piracy leads to significant losses in sales for them ("Every downloaded CD equals one missed CD sale"). While this is probably impossible to prove (and the evidence suggests that it may not be the case anyway), we now should be able to measure a significant increase in CD sales (or paid download sales) now that Megaupload has been taken down.